Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1930, Page 5

SHIFTS & STATIONS TOEND RADIO NOISE Federal Commission Makes Changes Without Notice to Listeners. 1 Unknown to radio listeners and to broadcasting stations themselves, the broadcast band is being combed from end to end in a gradual, thorough re- alignment of station assignments, to; silence, so far as possible, all extraneous | noises due to technical flaws. | Last week. without advance notice, the Federal Radio Commission disclosed the first projected shuffing of assign- ments, involving 13 of the 40 national channels and 46 of the 600 stations. It was the initial stride in the under- taking, but there was no intimation that other changes were to follow. Shift Affects 17 Stations. ‘The first revision of any magnitude since the sweeping reailocation of No- vember, 1928, this shift affects 17 sta- tions of the front rank, operating on cleared channels with high power, and 29 others in the secondary category. ‘The commission’s engineering division is engrossed in its task of revision as- signments throughout the stretch of the band to eliminate cross-talk, hetero- dynes and other man-made interfer- ences. The changes, to be made from time to time, will be deliberate and perhaps far between. Each will have | as its objective the clearing up of re- ception in particular communities. Un- less the plans are changed, there will be no drastic, disrupting shifts. Commission Plan Outlined. In the end, which may be months away, the commission hopes to have a set-up as nearly perfect as possible. Engineers are agreed that with only 90 available channels and more than 600 stations to be cared for it is en- tirely impracticable to attain the ideal state in broadcasting. Stations must be ked and crammed into this almost opelessly inadequate space, with the inevitable result of interference. But, by intense scrutiny and mock allocations worked out on paper, regional shifts are planned to improve condi- tions. At the direction of the commis- sion, George O. Sutton, broadcast en- gineer, is devoting practically his entire attention to it. Unlike the 1928 alloca- tion, which, in one revision, turned the broadcast band topsy-turvy, the new re- vision will hardly be noticed, except as the particular regions are affected. It is unlikely that any more of the cleared channels will be affected than those 13 involved in last week’s new deal. Will Probe Regional Channels. Next the commission will revamp as- signments on the regional channels, utilized by stations with power from 250 to 1.000 watts during evening hours. In small chunks it will switch these stations in line with accepted engi- neering principles. There will be a mini- mum of power and operating time changes, which were significant in the 1923 allocation. Practically all the shifts will be in frequency alone, to get greater channel separations be- tween stations in close proximity geo- graphically. (Coyright. 1930, by the Consolidated Press.) . CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. A banquet, reception and dance will be tonight at the Roosevelt Hotel by Department ~ Auxiliary United Spanish War Veterans, in honor of Mrs, Lplu 3. thm. mational president. “The gren Terface Citizens’ As- sociation meet tonight at 8 o'clock at Twelfth street and Rhode Island avenue northeast. Citizens’ Association of Chevy Chase, D. C., will hold its regular meeting to- night at E. V. Brown School, 8 o'clock. Dr Fay-Cooper Cole will discuss “Wild Tribes of the Philippines” at the meet- ing of the Washington Society of Engi- | neer< tonight at the Cosmos Club. | Col. U. S. Grani |, will deliver an | address at the meeting of the South- west Washington Citizens’ Association | &t Fairbrother School tonight, 8 o'clock. | Frederick J. Libby will ak on “The | London Naval Conference” at the meet- ing of the Connecticut Avenue Citizens’ | Association tonight at All Souls’ Ej copal Church, Cathedral avenue and ‘Woodley place. Announcement has been made that a card party will be giver tonight at 8 o'clock by the Nativity Church at 6000 ‘Georgia avenue. FUTURE. Annual dance and card party of Lebanon Chapter, No. 25, O. E. 8., will be held at the Willard Hotel tomorrow night. National Review Woman's Benefit Association will be hostess at a weekly luncheon to be held tomorrow from noon until 1:30 at the club house, 1750 Massachusetts avenue. Mrs. Della Ed- | munds in charge. \ Master Plumbers' Association will | entertain at a banquet at the Wardman Park Hotel Thursday evening. A congressional reception and dance | be given by the Georgia State So- ciety at the Washington Hotel Friday evening, 8:30 o'clock. Huguenot Soclety of Washington will meet Friday night at St. John's Hall, Sixteenth and H streets. Rev. Florian J. C. Vurpillot will speak on “Voltaire and the Huguenots.” Glover Park Citizens’ Association meets Friday night at the Industrial Home School, Wisconsin avenue and Thirty-seventh street, 8 o'clock. Rev. J. T. Harvey, pastor of Geth- semane Baptist Church, will preach a special sermon at the Vermont Avenue ptist Church, of which Rev. C. T. Murray is pastor, tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. Proceeds for the benefit of the church. All welcome. “Flap Goes the Flapper” is the play to be presented by the Blair-Hayes Parent - Teacher tion - Priday night in the Stuart Junior High 8chool, h and E streets, 8:15 o'clock. | | | | | — —e W. C. T. U. to Observe Date. Bpecial Distpatch to The Sta LEESBURGH, Va., February 19.—The Leesburg W. C. T. U. will hold a Frances E. Willard Memorial meeting at the Pegpie’s National Bank, Lecsburs. Fri- daahn 2:30 pm. A sketch of Miss Willard's life will be given by Mrs. The- oddre Reid. The subject “International Relations” will be discussed by Mrs. Hepry J. Hoge, who attended the re- cent ‘Washington Conference. % 3 .00 Trip WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY Week-End Excursion MONTREAL Friday, February 21 Retarning Sunday, Februsry 23 ALL STEEL EQUIPMENT Friends Are More Important Than Success, He Says on Birthday. Would Change Nothing in His Life if He Could Live It Again. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 19.—On his sixty-eighth birthday, Charles M. Schwab yesterday announced that, after 50 years of an active business life, he was retiring from all business activities except the Bethlehem Steel Co. Mr. Schwab's birthday was celebrated last night at a “quiet family dinner party” at his residence on Riverside Drive and Seventy-third street. He said he had spent the day, as usual, at his office. “Looking back through the years,” he said, “I will say that if I had my life to live over again there has been nothing in it that I would wish to nge. “’rg' me now friends are more im- portant than this so-called business THE EVENI CHARLES M. SCHWAB. success, and it is very gratifying for | me to finish my long business life with | the multitude of friends that I have all over the country.” Mr. Schwab was born at Williams- burg, Pa., February 18, 1862 BETHESDA FIREMEN PRAISED AT DINNER Bride and Others Point to Record When Volunteers Honor Board Members. &pecial Dispatch to The Star. BETHESDA, Md., February 19.—Ex- cellent service which the Bethesda Vol- unteer Fire Department is giving resi- dents was emphasized last night at a dinner given to members of the Bethesda fire board by the department volunteers at the club house of the ‘Woman's Club of Bethesda, Alta Vista, with more than 75 guests present. ‘The dinner was featured by speeches from Willlam W. Bride, Corporation counsel of the District of Columbia, and acting president of the fire board during Col. Thomas Hampton's illness. Oliver Owen Kuhn, managing editor of The Washington Star and first president of the fire board, one of those who di- rected the organization of the depart- ment; Walter Johnson, manager of the ‘Washington base ball team, and an ac- tive member of the department; T. R. Pickett, secretary of the board, and S. ‘Walter Bogley, treasurer of the board. Exceptional Record Shown. Dudley Browne, chief of the depart- ment and toastmaster of the dinner, and G. Wady Imirie, the first chief of the department, spoke on. behalf of the volunteers. Chief Browne an- nounced during the course of his re- port on the activities of the depart- ment that the volunteers had answered one call every 72 hours during 1929, more calls than answered by any other Montgomery County volunteer fire de- partment. Mr. Bride, who succeeded Mr. Kuhn as president of the fire board made the important announcement that the department is now out of dept and expects to reduce the present 12 per cent fire tax at the next regular meet- ing of the board. the course of the dinner a {gold watch and chain were presented to Jesse L. Barber, who is retiring as assistant chief. Other Guests of Honor. The guests of honor included the speakers and: R. W. Beard, Emory H. Bogley, B. R. Endreas, Joseph V. Mor-- gan, O. P. Brown, Charles Morgan, J. W. Stohlman, Judge Harry Hunt, John A. Farnham, Dr. Benjamin C. Perry, president of the Montgomery County Commissioners: Capt. H. Leamann of the District Fire Department, John J. Miller, J. W. Stohlman, jr., George P. Sacks, George W. Bryan, Charles Robb, John Imirie, Leon M. Grant, John R. Clark, Capt. Frederick Earl Smith, Ford E. Young, Aldrich Moore, Albert R. Klass, Capt. George P. Bush, Robert ©O. Beckham, John A. Dickinson, Robert E. Bondy and George W. Bennett. ‘The committee on arrangements in- cluded: J. Fred Imirie, dock and John L. Imirie. WINS SERVICE CROSS. Brooklyn Man Is Rewarded for World War Heroism. George Clark of Brooklyn, N. Y., for- mer private in the sanitary detachment of the 107th United States Infantry, 27th Division, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross f.r extraor- dinary heroism in action near Ronssoy, France, September 29, 1918. During the advance against the Hindenburg line, the citation says, Clark undoubt- edly saved the lives of many wounded men of his company, at great risk to himself, by dragging them from the path of a tank which had just emerged from a nearby smoke screen on the bat- tlefield. PIANOS TO RENT $5 Per Month DE MOLL’S 2 Furniture New and Sli&htly Used Oriental and Domesti, -Also Anti Hich oods i Tow Brices Dawes Furniture & Specialty Co. 2447 18th St. N.W.. at Col. Rd. Graduate MeCormick i G DR. CLAUDE S, SEMONES Eyesight Specialist Itching Ends When Zemo Touches Skin —'.houur;lds say. way soothing, cooling Zemo brings re- lief to skin ‘which itches and fixm Even in most severe cases, itching dis- appears almost as soon Pho: 409-41 10(h clear away unsightly blemishes, know of nothing betfer than invisible Zemo. Always this 1 anti- septic on hand. Use it freely. It's safe as can be. 35c¢, 60c and .00. Al dealers, " Peansylvania Railroad £ FOR SKIN lRfilT ‘ \ONS chairman; | Jesse Barber, Andrew Pugh, John Mur- It's wonderful the as Zemo touches ! the tender and inflamed surface. To| draw out local “infection and help to| we | POLICE AND FIREMEN’S : INSURANCE HELD OVER Omnibus Bill Would Pay $10,000 to Dependents of Men Killed in Action. After informal discussion for mearly two hours today the House District committee lald aside for future con- sideration the omnibus bill to pay $10,- 000 to the widow or dependents of po- Llc: and firemen killed in the line of luty. This measure grew out of several in- dividual bills for the relief of widows whose husbands had been killed, not- ably Mrs. Jennie Bruce Gallahan, whose husband, while on a fire truck, | was killed in a collision with an as- serted bootlegger's car chased by law enforcement officers. He had served for & number of years with a good rec- ord on the Fire Department and had previously been in the Navy. Many members of Congress are greatly interested in the proposed in- surance. TRICKED INTO MARRIAGE, HUSBAND SAYS IN SUIT Man Claims Wife Was Already ‘Wed, but Later Obtained Di- vorce From Illinois Man. Claiming that he was tricked into marrying the defendant by reason of her false representation that she had never before been married, Frank C. A. Van Dalsum, 1820 California street, | today petitioned the District Supreme Court for an annulment of his marriage | on October 24, 1925, to Dorothy Stark Drum. After the marriage, Van Dalsum | claims he discovered that his wife not| only had been previously married, but was not divorced from her first husband, who was Kenneth L. Drum, of Decatur, Ill. Drum divorced her on June 1, 1925, it is claimed, but Van Dalsum did not discover the fact until recently. He| avers his wife deserted him in this city on August 25, 1927, since which time they have not lived together. Attorneys Raymond Neudecker and William C. Ashford appear on behalf of the husband. BOSTON WOR.KEHS STRIKE. BOSTON, February 19 (#)—The Communist faction among the organiz- ed garment workers here called a general strike yesterday which took about 400 workers from cloak and dress manufacturing ' shops while Benjamin Schlesinger of New York, President of | the International Ladies’ Garment Workers' Union, was negotiating with manufacturers a new wage and work- ing_conditions agreement. , Best Purgative for the congestion, reduces com- plications, hastens recovery. BURGLARS LEAVE §2.500 UNTOUCHED Clothing Store Safe Found Intact Following Three Robberies. Three Seventh street establishments were entered early today by burglars, | but it developed after a check-up that| nothing had been taken, and a safe containing about $2,500 was not even touched. & The first establishment believed to have been entered was the Federal Clothing Store at 621 Seventh street. Entrance was gained by cracking open a trap door on the roof. Once in the attic, the burglars ripped a large hole in a tin ceiling and made their way to the main floor of the store. A step- ladder was used later to climb out. Irving Ramber, manager, said the store safe, containing about $2,500, was intact. ‘Trap doors in roofs also were pried open to enable robbers to enter offices of Abel & Co., at 613 Seventh street, a commercial photographic concern, and the store of the Falk Clothing Co. at 609. Several connecting doors n the Abel offices were smashed open. No effort appeared to have been made to enter Kahn's Optical Co. at 6 This is the only company in the imm diate neighborhood equipped Wwith a burglar alarm system. Several fingerprints were found by Sergt. Fred Sandberg, chief of the Police Department Bureau of Identi- fication. Thief Rifles Auto Of 875 in Shoes, All for Left Foot Among the disappointments of a life of crime was that of the fellow who robbed an automobile in the 1300 block of Seventh street last night. The thief made a good approach and a clean get-away, lugging off $75 worth of shoes in a sam- ple case. Probably he needed shoes anyway. All that was very well, as Anton J. Endler of Woodlawn, Md., fxplllnecL The chagrin came a “Twenty of my best sample shoes must have looked to that fellow,” Endler went on. “And except for the fact that they all were for the left foot, they were mighty fine shoes.” New Lumber New Millwork New Plumbing Save Mo:ney, Too! i 3—Branches—3 MAIN OFFICE-6Z & C.Sts & W. CAMP MEIGS-57 & Fla Ave. N. BRIGHTWOOD-5921 Ga Ave.N. I E. on all FIREPLACE GOODS Including Gas Logs, Coal Grates, Andirons, Andiron Sets, Oil Heaters, etec. % MUDDIMAN §, 911 G St. N.W. Phone Nat. 6140-2622 S MODERN WARE - HOUSES OPEN Storage PRIVATE LOCKED ROOMS 920-922 MOVING—PACKING—S ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF ‘Merchants Transfer Strage Co. E STREET HIPPING—FIR SEPARATE ROOMS FOR PIANOS AND WORKS OF ART REASONABLE RATES PHONE NATL. 6900 FOR ESTIMATES N.W. EPROOF STORAG and ask | . for Ve 3 for then to bed! You'll £ relieved in the morming! en-Gay Z5EY for colds-aches &ains NG__STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19 {SCHWAB, NOW 8. WILL RETIRE FROM ALL BUT STEEL BUSINESS Anltomic-Hygienic Exhibition “Man” Destroyed by Fire By the Associated Press. DORTMUND, Prussia, Febru- ary 19.—Pire has completely destroyed the anatomic-hygienic exhibition “man” which had been shown in many German cities and in the Spring was to have been shipped to the United States (m_'r:lxhibfllon. ‘e display was assembled by Prof. Ernst Emil Hammer -of Munich and included scientific apparatus, models, etc., illustrat- ing the human body and its functions. |WOMAN LIVES IN SQUALOR WITH $90,000 IN KITCHEN Son Has Her Committed to Sani- tarium, Revealing Small For- tune in Cash and Bonds. By the Associated Press. 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